February 26th, 2007 Some friends from MBA and I went for a quick getaway to Subic over the weekend. We started off very early so traffic was rather light. A quick drive and a stop at a McDonald’s for breakfast later, we were in Subic.
Our first stop was our accomodations. We met up with the caretaker and [...]
February 21st, 2007 The Oakley Unknown is one high-speed, low-drag (HSLD) piece of gear. It is has a sleek wraparound frame design that provides a wide field of vision. The frame is made of plastic (“O MATTER” in Oakley marketing parlance) which makes it very light so it doesn’t get burdensome while worn. Rubber (“Unobtainium”) earsocks keep a [...]
February 19th, 2007 by Shades Apart
Watch the night sky at my window
While the world is fast asleep
I stare into the unknown
I will have no fear as long as you’re with me
I will catch your fall- I’ll keep the world away
Chasing after daydreams- I am unafraid
Catch me if I fall- in your arms I’m safe
Chasing after daydreams
World gone mad [...]
February 18th, 2007 Hotel Rwanda is the Schindler’s List for Africa. A lot has happened and is happening in that continent that the rest of the world don’t know or don’t even care about. One of those is the massacre of Tutsis by Hutus extremists in 1994. In the middle of this madness, a reluctant hotel manager was [...]
February 18th, 2007 The Pentax Optio WPi is a camera you can bring almost anywhere, almost anytime. It is small, compact, and waterproof! (up to 5 ft for 30 minutes). Wrap it in the optional silicone rubber skin and it’s also reasonably rugged, too. It’s got good camera specs too: 6 megapixels, 3x optical zoom, and 2″ LCD [...]
February 17th, 2007 The last exam was finally done. After a quick snack courtesy of the MBA Program Director, after hasty goodbyes, after three years of studying, taking exams, discussing cases, MBA is finally over. In a way, it was a bit sad. Despite the adversity, it has been quite fun and enjoyable so how could it be [...]
February 12th, 2007 In Apocalypto, Mel Gibson brought to life the Mayan civilization and used it as his setting. Novel enough in itself. Like The Passion of The Christ, he uses an archaic language. In this case, Mayan. Like the previous movie there are English subtitles. And that’s where the similarities end. Make no mistake: This is purely [...]
February 11th, 2007 Yesterday, some of my classmates and I were having a post-exams dinner at Gerry’s Libis when the question of why we were all drained, tired, and famished after the exams. I mentioned that I read somewhere that the brain consumes a lot of energy. But how much exactly I didn’t know. So I did a [...]
February 6th, 2007 Crash has what’s got to be one of the most powerful scenes in a movie. It’s worth watching if only for that. But it is a lot more than that. The movie is about the interleaving stories of several characters as they go about their lives in downtown LA. It is a story about racism, [...]
February 4th, 2007 Caught a replay of the Monte Carlo Rally last night. It featured the much awaited debut of the new Citroen C4 World Rally Car on the WRC. Although it has essentially the same 2L turbocharged engine (providing a drool-worthy 315 BHP @ 5500 RPM and 570 NM @ 2750 RPM) as the previous Xsara, improvements [...]